Monday, August 23, 2010

Oops...This is a day late. Oh well. Warning! Treadmills are Dangerous! Only if you are as uncoordinated as I am.
There was a definite hampering of my training this past week.The cause is the large bruises and road rash on my right side. Please feel free to laugh, pee your pants, whatever, at the following story. Well, it's not road rash so much as treadmill rash. I can't really put my finger on how but I off (on to) my treadmill. I think what happened was, while running hill repeats early Tuesday morning, I put my foot down on the edge off the belt. And all of a sudden my feet came out from under me and I hit the wall behind the mill. The noise was loud enough to wake the Big Man sleeping upstairs. For few seconds, I couldn't move. So I just lay there stunned sanding off my leg skin with the belt, taking inventory of all my pieces parts. Over all, no serious injury. Just a wrenched left shoulder and missing right leg skin. No idea how wrenched my left arm but landed on my right side.

The funniest part of this story is that this is the second time I've fallen of a mill. But this time, luckily, I wasn't in a gym with 5 other people to see me do it. Ay! I'm sooo clutsy!

This weeks half-marathon training plan:

Sun

Mon

Tues

Wed

Thurs

Fri

Sat

08/22

08/23

08/24

08/25

08/26

08/27

08/28

Rest

Spin bike
Lunges

30min run

Spin Bike
Lunges

Lunges

5mi run

rest

But I did manage to run a not-so-stellar 8.5mi with Chrisy last Friday. So I'm good on long runs for a this week. I am hoping to tag along for an 11miler with some friends on Sunday. Apparently, I'm not following a set schedule anymore. I'm just running long runs willy-nilly.

Has anyone else had an unfortunate incident with a treadmill? Or is it only me who is uncoordinated enough to fall of a treadmill. Twice.

OMG!! So Sorry! that's my worst nightmare, falling of the treadmill.I'm so clumsy! But so far (fingers crossed) me and treadmill are getting along great. I do have to watch out for stairs, they tend not to like me.